What lies ahead is lots and lots of heavy technical sessions on the latest product developments and industry trends in Cloud, Mobile, Message Orientated Middleware, BPM, and SOA etc … but in amongst it all on Tuesday night a full on rock out with The Goo Goo Dolls – what the? – I hope they are Android-savvy – we cannot wait…

….at last, as I could not possilbly spend another moment in a Burlesque Bar, the Solution Center opened today. .

Really there is not much to see in the ‘cloud’ – you use Hotmail?, you use Dropbox? – the underlying architecture of applications (interesting as it is in its evolution) is increasingly difficult to conceptualise beyond the user interface of the browser… its like standing in front of the Cheshire Cat when Alice asks…

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to”

…so for DayOne at least forget applications (for the moment only) as checking out new IBM hardware renains as cool as browsing for Bang & Olufsen stereo equipment…